War By Media by John Pilger

‘War by Media’

On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled ‘Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire’.

The following is a transcript of John Pilger’s address

London-Venezuela Oil Deal: Just The Ticket

Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007

Probably no international agreement has been quite so unusual as the deal being signed today between Ken Livingstone, London’s mayor, and the European branch of Venezuela’s state oil company.

Venezuelan Colloquial Spanish for English Speakers

Venezuelan Spanish Dictionary

for English Speakers

Original work by
Daniel Castro Pumarega.

Translations by Tio Catire

The People or The White House. You decide.

Political rhetoric vs real people and real life in Venezuela. Has the white house propaganda machine spun one tall tale too many? Views on the street from Caracas.

What Communism Still Teaches Us —Václav Havel

The fall of communism was an opportunity to create more effective global political institutions based on democratic principles — institutions that could stop what appears to be, in its current form, the self-destructive tendency of our industrial world. If we do not want to be overrun by anonymous forces, the principles of freedom, equality and solidarity must start working globally.

Media Burn: Ant Farm

Chip Lord (b1944, USA), Doug Michels (1943 – 2003, USA), Curtis Schreier (b1944, USA)

Excerpts from Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television.

Anti-Film

Détournement of images with writings of Guy Debord

Paradise Stolen

Once upon a time, an entire people were exiled from their own country by a mighty foreign power. They were taken a thousand miles across the sea and left on strange shores. They lost their homes and their traditional livelihood and were not wanted by the people of the land they had been brought to.

Political Profile: Václav Havel

Václav Havel (born 5 October 1936) Czech writer, dramatist, and politician. Last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic.

How To Cancel Your Sky TV Contract

Cancelling Sky is not easy. Sky themselves are very careful *not* to include such information on their website (or at least no obvious, easy information and procedure.) Here is some useful info to make your cancellation quick and easy.

How to Cancel Your Sky Contract

You can cancel online, by post or by phone.

Sky only permits the account holder to cancel an account. This is the person in whose name the Sky account is held. (The person actually paying the subscription might not be the ‘account holder’).

There is a 30 day notice period.

To ensure your contract ends by 12th month, contact Sky before the end of 11th month. You can cancel at any time from the 11th month.

Cancel Online

• To Cancel Online, complete Sky’s Contact Us form with all the required details.
• In (1) Define Query select ‘Cancellation’
• Then, in (2) Refine Query select ‘Cancel Sky TV’
• Complete the rest of the form.
• In the Description message box, tell Sky you are cancelling your contract.
• The 30 day notice period starts on the day you send your message to cancel.
• In view of this, you may want to tell Sky that you will be cancelling your Direct Debit soon.
• Say you expect confirmation of cancellation by phone and email within seven days (give a date).

Sky should confirm quickly that you account is cancelled – by email or phone or both. If you don’t get confirmation by the date expected, get on the phone or write or complete the online form again.

Boycott Murdoch’s Media Monopoly!

His influence today extends across the globe from Fox in the US to Star TV in Asia, and the Sun and Sky in the UK. He is courted by presidents and prime ministers, and his personal fortune is estimated at $7.8bn, or £4.53bn.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 11 March 1931, Rupert Murdoch is an Australian global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York City in the United States.

The Rise of the Modern Day Corporation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The film you are about to watch charts the development of the corporation as a legal entity from its genesis to unprecedented legal protection stemming from creative interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, that is from its origins as an institution chartered by governments to carry out specific public functions, to the rise of the vast modern institutions entitled to some of the legal rights of a “person.”

Music With A Message: Immortal Technique

Before the presidential race in November 2004, the Immortal Technique song “Bin Laden“, featuring Mos Def and produced by DJ Green Lantern, emerged on Shade 45: Sirius Bizness. However, it took almost half a year until it was officially released on a 12” vinyl single in the summer of 2005. The single also contained a remix of the song featuring hip-hop legends Chuck D of Public Enemy and KRS-One. The song is controversial; it blames the Reagan Doctrine (under which the U.S. provided aid to the mujahideen in Afghanistan) and U.S. president George W. Bush for his administration’s implied liability for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Socialism and Man in Cuba – Che Guevara

[Letter written to the editor of Marcha, a Uruguayan weekly magazine, early 1965]

Dear Comrade,

Though belatedly, I am completing these notes in the course of my trip through Africa, hoping in this way to keep my promise. I would like to do so by dealing with the theme set forth in the title above. I think it may be of interest to Uruguayan readers.

A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokesmen, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is characterized by the abolition of the individual for the sake of the state. I will not try to refute this argument solely on theoretical grounds, but rather to establish the facts as they exist in Cuba and then add comments of a general nature. Let me begin by broadly sketching the history of our revolutionary struggle before and after the taking of power.

Stealing A Nation

By John Pilger

There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history’s trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.

The Other September 11th

Coup d’Etat Chile 1973

On September 11, 1973, Augusto Pinochet lead a bloody military coup, backed by the US, to overthrow the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Allende was a socialist who believed in equality for all people and rights for the poor.

On that horrific September 11th, Pinochet’s troops marched the streets of Santiago, Chile to bomb the Moneda presidential palace (Palacio de La Moneda.) The country’s president Allende delivered a passionate final radio address to his people – before taking his own life as the troops moved in.